These Reese’s Pieces cookies with chocolate chips and oatmeal are almost too easy to whip up. They’re bursting with peanut butter and chocolate flavour. All you need is a tall, cold glass of milk for dunking!
I’m in a funny mood today (pretty much 99% of the time, actually). I made these Reese’s cookies out of necessity.
Necessity?
Yes, it was necessary.
You see, I do the same thing every year.
I buy the dang Halloween candy bars, like, in September and absolutely devour the box the first weekend it’s in the house. Every year it’s the same. I think to myself that I’m not going to eat the candy.
What do I do?
Eat all the candy. Okay, not all, but a good chunk of it.
After hiding my shame or, um, throwing away the candy wrappers the next day, I decided to make cookies (because what better than a night of stuffing my pie hole with candy, than making a batch of candy and chocolate-filled cookies, LOL).
Least there will be some candy left for the kids. Okay, I really have to buy more, but whatever.
In the event that you do have leftover Halloween candy, these Reese’s Pieces cookies would be a great way to use it up!
Those candy are like little bites of heaven!
Oh, and chocolate ain’t so bad either. Then there’s oats, which add a lovely texture and flavour to the cookies.
This Reese’s cookies come together in less than 10 minutes and there’s only about 14 minutes bake time.
That’s less than 25 minutes to peanut buttery, chocolate-loaded homemade cookies.
Dare I say better than candy bars?
You want a generous scoopful of batter for each cookie, place on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet and bake.
I could tell you in further detail what makes these cookies delicious, like:
- the buttery texture
- creamy milk chocolate chips
- super peanut buttery Reese’s candy
But you should just make them for yourself!
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Final (silly) thoughts … the way I look at it, is that candy and cookies help keep me fit. Without them, would I work out? I think not! So, it’s necessary that I make these cookies. Good argument, huh? Oh, the little lies we tell ourselves, LOL.
If you make these Reese’s Pieces cookies, be sure to leave a comment below!
Reese’s Pieces Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup large flake oats (rolled oats)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Candy, small or regular variety
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk together the flour, oats, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or in a bowl with a hand mixer), blend butter with brown sugar and granulated sugar until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes (stop as necessary to scrape the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula).
- Add vanilla extract and blend to combine, about 30 seconds.
- Add eggs, one at a time, and blend until combined, about 1 minute.
- Pour reserved flour mixture into butter mixture and blend until combined, about 1 to 2 minutes. Add candy and chocolate chips and blend about 1 minute.
- To make cookies, place about 1 tablespoon scoopfuls of cookie dough, about 2 inches apart (you may have to to two batches, depending on the size of your cookie sheet) onto prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for 12 to 14 minutes. Once done, carefully remove the cookies from the oven and transfer them to a cooling rack to cool for about 10 minutes. Serve and enjoy!
A note on times provided: appliances vary, any prep and/or cook times provided are estimates only.
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MJ Chapman
This is such a terrific recipe! I hope all those people who commented actually made them! LOL! It makes the amount it says it will, it’s easy to mix together, and they are really, really delicious! Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside with all those delicious bits inside. And oatmeal so I can pretend they are healthy! 🙂 Thank you!
Dawn | Girl Heart Food
Awww, thank you very much!! I’m so glad you enjoy them!!
SHASHI AT SAVORYSPIN
Lol – Dawn,my daughter and I brought home 2 bags of Reeses and mini kit kats 2 weeks ago to “get ready for Halloween” and I’m not sure where the contents of those bags went off too… 🙂 Now I do need to buy more and make these cookies! Love how THICK they are! YUM!
Girl Heart Food
Lol! Story of my life 😉 Thanks Shashi!
Katherine | Love In My Oven
You’re not the only one, Dawn!!! Haha I try so hard to not buy the candy ahead of time but I always do, and then I can NEVER stop eating it. It’s terrible. I’m thinking I need to pick out all of the Reese’s Pieces though and make these!!! I love that you used chocolate chips AND the pieces. Yum. I will probably burn my tongue trying one of these before they’re cool enough!
Girl Heart Food
So so happy to hear that! It’s like ‘I’ll just have one’ and it never happens! It definitely is hard to wait to enjoy these….that’s what dunkin’ in milk is for if you ask me, lol 😉